This is the last installment in the Half Bad series and it is going to break your heart.
Nathan is facing a losing battle against his grief and longing for revenge. His sanity is fragile as he struggles to comprehend the ease and rising number of deaths he is facing as the Alliance struggles to pick up the remaining pieces and make one last defiant stand. But in their greatest moment of need, Nathan is balanced dangerously close to the edge as visions start to haunt him in which the one person who would never betray him does just that.
Gabriel has stood by Nathan since the beginning but as he watches him slipping away from him he begins to fear that no matter how strong his love for Nathan is it may not be enough to keep him grounded and each day burdens Nathan with the losses of more comrades as he begins withdrawing from Gabriel and everyone else. Convincing Nathan to leave and find peace with him is proving impossible and when Nathan lashes out in anger Gabriel finds himself with a choice to make.
This series has introduced characters who have lived through the atrocities of war and been dehumanized by those in power. It has created characters like Nathan who battle the same demons we do in reality. It has introduced us to the uncertainties of human nature. In short this series has given us characters who live and breathe beside us and the author has given us an ending where tragedy and heartbreak are mitigated by the promise of a more fulfilling future. The last few pages of this story are absolutely beautiful in their ability to shed light on the re emergence of a man's soul from the depths battle sends it. Nathan's last act in the story is sheer poetry. Love is the light that stops this series from being just another battlefield tale and Green makes it clear that that is exactly what she has written, a love story.
Nathan is facing a losing battle against his grief and longing for revenge. His sanity is fragile as he struggles to comprehend the ease and rising number of deaths he is facing as the Alliance struggles to pick up the remaining pieces and make one last defiant stand. But in their greatest moment of need, Nathan is balanced dangerously close to the edge as visions start to haunt him in which the one person who would never betray him does just that.
Gabriel has stood by Nathan since the beginning but as he watches him slipping away from him he begins to fear that no matter how strong his love for Nathan is it may not be enough to keep him grounded and each day burdens Nathan with the losses of more comrades as he begins withdrawing from Gabriel and everyone else. Convincing Nathan to leave and find peace with him is proving impossible and when Nathan lashes out in anger Gabriel finds himself with a choice to make.
This series has introduced characters who have lived through the atrocities of war and been dehumanized by those in power. It has created characters like Nathan who battle the same demons we do in reality. It has introduced us to the uncertainties of human nature. In short this series has given us characters who live and breathe beside us and the author has given us an ending where tragedy and heartbreak are mitigated by the promise of a more fulfilling future. The last few pages of this story are absolutely beautiful in their ability to shed light on the re emergence of a man's soul from the depths battle sends it. Nathan's last act in the story is sheer poetry. Love is the light that stops this series from being just another battlefield tale and Green makes it clear that that is exactly what she has written, a love story.
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